Hi guys, Thanks for the help, will check out Exemplar and ModelStubbing, for the moment this screencast about FixtureReplacement looks very useful.
http://railsnewbie.com/files/fixture_replacement_demo.mov Rai On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Nathan Sutton wrote: > Ok, if you want to do it messy and uninformed, do it my way. ;) > > I've heard of Fixture Scenarios but I heard they were broken with edge > rspec, but I'll check out Exemplar, ModelStubbing, and > FixtureReplacement. > > Nathan Sutton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > rspec edge revision 2910 > rspec_on_rails edge revision 2909 > rails edge revision 8167 > > > > > > On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Scott Taylor wrote: > >> >> On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:20 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: >> >>> On Nov 20, 2007 10:20 AM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> On Nov 20, 2007 10:18 AM, Nathan Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> You may want to create a factory method to create users with valid >>>>> parameters, overriding any parameters by passing in options. >>>>> >>>>> ALPHA = ('a'..'z').to_a + ('A'..'Z').to_a >>>>> >>>>> def random_text >>>>> txt = "" >>>>> 10.times do >>>>> txt << ALPHA[rand(52)] >>>>> end >>>>> txt # maybe a returning block? can't remember if that >>>>> works here >>>>> end >>>>> >>>>> def create_user(options={}) >>>>> User.create!({ :name => random_text, >>>>> :password => random_text}.merge >>>>> (options)) >>>>> end >>>> >>>> There are also tools that will do this for you: Exemplar, >>>> ModelStubbing to name two. >>> >>> Actually - those are geared towards avoiding the DB. What you'd want >>> is Scenarios and FixtureScenarios (and others similar). >>> >> >> How about giving FixtureReplacement some love? >> >> Scott >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
